The London Bookshop Affair: A Novel by Louise Fein
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A new historical drama from Daughter of the Reich bestselling author Louise Fein, about a London bookshop involved in an espionage network, set against the backdrop of the Cuban Missile Crisis, perfect for fans of Kate Quinn and Pam Jenoff.Two courageous women. One astonishing secret. A world on the bri ...Show more
Black Silk and Sympathy by Deborah Challinor
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction | Series: Tatty Crowe Ser.
A dazzling new series from bestselling historical fiction author Deborah Challinor, exploring the fascinating world of Victorian funeral customs and featuring Sydney's first female undertaker. Tatiana Caldwell's childhood in London is idyllic and filled with the love of doting parents. But when they die ...Show more
Sewing Moonlight by Kyle Mewburn
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
It's winter of 1928, and young German man Wilhelm Erdinger is left stranded in the remote New Zealand village of Falter's Mill. Wilhelm purchases a piece of land capable of providing the kind of sustainable, self-sufficient life he craves, and a shack he soon begins to call home. Though he is regarded w ...Show more
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
$25.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Young Eilis Lacey dreams of life beyond the confines of her tiny Irish village, but unlike her beautiful sister, Rose, Eilis' gifts are of a more practical nature: she has a head for numbers, and is a loving and dutiful daughter. Yet her ambition cannot be hidden and soon is noted by the Parish Priest, ...Show more
Long Island by Colm Tóibín
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony's parents. It is the spring of 1976 and Eilis, now in her forties with two teen ...Show more
The Sweet Blue Distance by Sara Donati
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A young midwife travels west to the New Mexico Territory to care for women in need and faces dangers more harrowing than the ones she's fleeing in this epic tale of survival, redemption, and love from Sara Donati, the international bestselling author of the Wilderness series. 1857: In a bid to outrun he ...Show more
The Star on the Grave: A novel inspired by the 'Japanese Schindler', written by a woman who owes him her life by Linda Margolin Royal
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A novel inspired by 'the Japanese Schindler', written by a woman who owes him her life. In 1940, as the Nazis sweep toward Lithuania, Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara defies his own government and secretly issues thousands of visas to Jewish refugees desperate to flee. After the war, Sugihara is dismis ...Show more
The Wartime Book Club (PB) by Kate Thompson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
From enchanting cliff tops and white sandy bays to the pretty cobbled streets of St Helier, Jersey is known as the land of milk and honey. For best friends Bea Rose (the local postwoman) and Grace Le Motte (who works in the island's only library) it becomes the frontline to everyday resistance when thei ...Show more
The Household by Stacey Halls
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
Offering refuge for prostitutes, petty thieves and the destitute, Urania Cottage is a second chance at life - but how badly do they want it? Nearing the end of her prison term, Josephine Nash accepts an invitation to live at Urania to please the woman she loves, but finds herself arriving alone and hea ...Show more
The Divorcees by Rowan Beaird
$37.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
A dark and dazzling debut from a beguiling new voice - for fans of Beautiful Ruins and Lessons in Chemistry. Lois Saunders thought that marrying the right man would finally cure her loneliness. But as picture-perfect as her husband is, she is suffocating in their loveless marriage. In 1951, though, unh ...Show more
The Frozen River by Ariel Lawhon
$38.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
From the bestselling author of Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that unhinges her small community.Maine, 1789: When a man is found entombed in the frozen Kennebec Rive ...Show more
Trust: Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction by Hernán Diaz
$28.00 NZD
Category: Historical Fiction
"Buzzy and enthralling ...A glorious novel about empires and erasures, husbands and wives, staggering fortunes and unspeakable misery...Fun as hell to read." --Oprah Daily"A genre-bending, time-skipping story about New York City's elite in the roaring '20s and Great Depression."--Vanity Fair"A riveting ...Show more